During the course of a variety of experimental work on transition metal borides (1-3), unusual behavior was found in heated mixtures of the Group IVa metal diborides with tungsten and molybdenum.[Experimental methods are described in detail in ref.(1).]All three of the diborides were found to behave differently when mixed with tungsten powder and heated. TiB~ formed what appeared to be a ternary compound with W (at roughly 50-50 mole %). The compound could be indexed in orthorhombic symmetry, by its close analogy to TaB, and had lattice parameters of ao = 3.180--0.008A, bo = 8.462_+ 0.006A, and co = 3.071 _ 0.003A. HfB=, when heated ) unless CC License in place (see abstract). ecsdl.org/site/terms_use address. Redistribution subject to ECS terms of use (see 130.207.50.37 Downloaded on 2014-12-09 to IP ) unless CC License in place (see abstract). ecsdl.org/site/terms_use address. Redistribution subject to ECS terms of use (see 130.207.50.37 Downloaded on 2014-12-09 to IP